The Origin of the Curse of Cain Doctrine....
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:07 pm
Many of you may know that from 1848 until 1978, all Mormon presidents and apostles taught the following:
*There was a War in Heaven, and two-thirds of the spirits fought for Jesus, and one-third for Lucifer. The two-thirds became humans on Earth, and the one-third became demons (without bodies).
*Some of the two-thirds were "less valiant" (lazy) and as punishmen they were born into the lineage of Cain.
*Cain was a white man, son of Adam and Eve, but became the first Negro after the LORD set a "mark" upon him, because he killed Abel. He married his sister, and she became Negro number 2. They became the parents of the Negro race.
*Ham married a Cainite woman who was already pregnant. Her firs child was Canaan (not the son of Ham, but of a Negro/Cainite man). The Canaanites became the black African race.
*Negroes are Cainites, and Canaanites, and cannot receive the priesthood in moral life. They will go to the Celestial Kingdom as servants.
This was called "THE CURSE OF CAIN DOCTRINE". It was an official doctrine of the Church for 130 years. Anybody says otherwise, they are lying (and many do) or they are repeating a lie they think is the truth, and they don't know better.
The origin of the Curse of Cain Doctrine stems ultimately from Paracelsus: a Catholic mystic who lived (I think) in the 14th century. This doctrine was picked up by the Pratt brothers, who taught it to other apostles (including Brigham Young). Brigham first rejected it, but came to accept it after a black/Indian Elder named William Cary seduced a number of white Mormon women in Nebraska. He claimed he was the reincarnation of Adam, and each one of them was "Eve" reincarnated. After that, Young taught the Curse of Cain doctrine.
In June 1978, bowing to internal and external threats (the U.S. Government was threating to end all Federal grants to BYU students, and threatening to yank BYU's academic licenses---this we know for sure--rumor says that the Federal government was even threatening to yank the Church's tax-exempt status). Also, the Church was having trouble finding priesthood-leaders in Brazil; since most "white" Brazilian men have at least one Negro ancestor. Anyway, Kimball prayed and received a "Revelation" to allow Negroes the priesthood (by "revelation" it means he made a decision, prayed about it, and got a "good feeling" in his bosom about it). The rest is history.
Is there any "truth" to the Curse of Cain Doctrine? Mormons, not wishing to be tought of as "racists" say "No!" I will say there is "some" TRUTH to it, and will explain that in this thread.
*There was a War in Heaven, and two-thirds of the spirits fought for Jesus, and one-third for Lucifer. The two-thirds became humans on Earth, and the one-third became demons (without bodies).
*Some of the two-thirds were "less valiant" (lazy) and as punishmen they were born into the lineage of Cain.
*Cain was a white man, son of Adam and Eve, but became the first Negro after the LORD set a "mark" upon him, because he killed Abel. He married his sister, and she became Negro number 2. They became the parents of the Negro race.
*Ham married a Cainite woman who was already pregnant. Her firs child was Canaan (not the son of Ham, but of a Negro/Cainite man). The Canaanites became the black African race.
*Negroes are Cainites, and Canaanites, and cannot receive the priesthood in moral life. They will go to the Celestial Kingdom as servants.
This was called "THE CURSE OF CAIN DOCTRINE". It was an official doctrine of the Church for 130 years. Anybody says otherwise, they are lying (and many do) or they are repeating a lie they think is the truth, and they don't know better.
The origin of the Curse of Cain Doctrine stems ultimately from Paracelsus: a Catholic mystic who lived (I think) in the 14th century. This doctrine was picked up by the Pratt brothers, who taught it to other apostles (including Brigham Young). Brigham first rejected it, but came to accept it after a black/Indian Elder named William Cary seduced a number of white Mormon women in Nebraska. He claimed he was the reincarnation of Adam, and each one of them was "Eve" reincarnated. After that, Young taught the Curse of Cain doctrine.
In June 1978, bowing to internal and external threats (the U.S. Government was threating to end all Federal grants to BYU students, and threatening to yank BYU's academic licenses---this we know for sure--rumor says that the Federal government was even threatening to yank the Church's tax-exempt status). Also, the Church was having trouble finding priesthood-leaders in Brazil; since most "white" Brazilian men have at least one Negro ancestor. Anyway, Kimball prayed and received a "Revelation" to allow Negroes the priesthood (by "revelation" it means he made a decision, prayed about it, and got a "good feeling" in his bosom about it). The rest is history.
Is there any "truth" to the Curse of Cain Doctrine? Mormons, not wishing to be tought of as "racists" say "No!" I will say there is "some" TRUTH to it, and will explain that in this thread.